Posted on 08/19/2002 11:27:05 AM PDT by mhking
[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8/19/02 ]
Young says McKinney campaign 'fudged' taped endorsement
By BILL TORPY Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young says a recorded telephone message with him endorsing Rep. Cynthia McKinney is "a fudge." The message, coupled with recorded endorsements by actor Robert Redford, former basketball star Magic Johnson and former President Bill Clinton, played to thousands of homes in the Fourth Congressional District over the past weekend. However, the popular former mayor and U.N. ambassador did not record the endorsement this year and said Monday he told the campaigns of McKinney and challenger Denise Majette that he was going to sit this primary election out. "It must be recycled," he said of the recording. "I really didn't want to get involved." Young said he has not said anything to the McKinney campaign about using the old tape. "I'll just let it slide," he said. "I admire Cynthia and her outspokenness and strength, but I also admire Denise," said Young, repeating what several politicians have said who have been caught in the middle of this bitter Democratic primary race for McKinney's seat. "I don't agree with what Cynthia said," he said, referring to her comments about President Bush's friends making money from the Sept. 11 attacks. "But I am glad she said it. In a democracy, the worst thing we can have is no controversy." State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, McKinney's re-election chairman, said he was surprised to hear Young was not endorsing the congresswoman. "I am baffled; I thought Andy Young was still with us," said Brooks. "It sounded like it had just been recorded. "I heard from constituents in DeKalb County saying they have heard from Andy Young," said Brooks, who said the media coordinator must have pulled a tape from a previous campaign from the archives. "We all assumed he was still with us."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer
Majette, who said she had been assured by Young that he was remaining neutral, said, "I'm glad the ambassador set the record straight. Once again, my opponent has been disrespectful and dishonest to the voters -- and the ambassador."
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Jihad Cindy got caught cheating? Gosh, knock me down with a feather.
Jihad Cynthia stomped on the tiger's tail, and the tiger has turned around and started slashing...hard.
Zimbabwe Financial Times this June:
. . .The people's cries for help to a government that they had just elected and indeed kept in power for the past 20 years were largely ignored.So it is in this context that it is difficult to understand Andrew Young, the visiting African-American activist and former mayor of Atlanta.
While Young, an internationally respected politician, is very right to point out that the land issue was paramount and should be resolved, there is no excuse whatsoever for him - a man who enjoys the full protection of the law in his home country the United States - to come here and proclaim that all is well, that there is no lawlessness in Zimbabwe let alone on the farms, as he is quoted as having said.
Surely it should be obvious to a person of Young's experience that the last place he could find out about the lawlessness in Zimbabwe is the State House.
Zimbabweans are tired of international apologists for ZANU PF's current violent campaign and appeal to Young and his ilk to stop trying to legitimise state-sponsored terrorism. Enough is enough.
Young is on the side of those profiting from the laundering of stones in Zimbabwe and the looting of resources in the Congo region. McKinney isn't.
Andy Young is old. He is much more moderate than Jihad Cynthia ever could be. He knows which side his bread is buttered on. He gets to sit on the sidelines and watch the show without having to get in and get his hands dirty.
Andy Young has not made any kind of real statements about Zimbabwe one way or the other. Not only that, your Zimbabwe paper says as much. It implies that he's dirty because he visited. I'm sorry. If he visits, he is now guilty by association? Don't wash.
Not only that, but contrary to your rantings here, Jihad Cynthia is on the record as supporting Mugabe and company.
So don't give me this BS about her being on "opposite sides" from McKinney. This piece that you quote is full of used food.
AIPAC and its friends spent between $1 and $2 million defeating Hillaird and it appears they will spend that much or more purging McKinney.
I would like to see them forced to spend that money every year defeating Democrats.
Wish they would go after Barbara Lee (D-CA) she is far worse than McKinney (look up her connections with the CPUSA and giving classified information to Castro). But AIPAC likes Barbara Lee apparently. Too bad.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. That Cynthia doesn't have the voice of MLK speaking from the grave and Ghandi as well. Nothing is too low for Cyndi and no constituent too dumb.
When Cynthia Tucker's AJC declares someone descended into "fringe lunacy", that's normally a sign of political radioactivity Clinton the "triangulator" would avoid.
Of course, it wouldn't be the first time "moderate" Democrats feed and/or tolerate incendiary radicalism to the black community while talking in soft, reasoned tones to the larger electorate.
Scumbag.
Gotta crawl before you walk. Given a choice, McKinney's the greater danger. I'm sure Lee isn't far off the list...
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